“Choose The Bike” by Alan Turman, one of the artists whose work will be on display as part of Artcrank’s annual poster show.

Love posters? Love to bike? Then you’ll want to be at Artcrank 2010 this Saturday at Shelter Studios in Minneapolis. Can’t make it? No worries, the show continues at One On One Bike April 12 through May 1st, and appears again at Northrup King Building for Art-A-Whirl May 14-16.

The Walker Art Center has two events worth checking out that open this weekend: “Views from Iran” is a film series focussing on contemporary life in a country that has made American headlines for years, but about which we know very little. And The Talent Show explores our engrossed relationships with reality TV and talent shows, against the backdrop of shrinking personal privacy.

The Cedar Cultural Center presents two evenings of West African music, one from Mali and another from Senegal. Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni ba perform Saturday night, followed by Senegalese legend Baaba Mal on Sunday.

There’s just a bunch of theater opening this weekend – in St. Paul! To give you a quick rundown:

Teatro del Pueblo and Pangea World Theater present Federico Garcia Lorca’s “House of Bernarda Alba,” in which five adult daughters are kept in mourning for their dead father, despite their own desires to find love. Performances run April 9 – 25 at Steppingstone Theatere.

Park Square Theater presents “Dead Man’s Cellphone,”billed as a “quirky modern adventure” that finds Jean increasingly annoyed by the ringing cellphone of a man sitting (quietly) next to her.

Iris Shiraishi tracks her journey from a childhood in Hawaii to her work as a taiko artist with Mu Daiko and Mu Performing Arts in the production “Becoming.” Performances run April 9 – May 2 at Dreamland Arts.

Update: Also Theatre Unbound and Green T Productions have joined together to present “Medea: A Noh Cycle“. Performances run April 10 – 25 in the Lowry Lab theater.

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Also opening in downtown St. Paul this Saturday is Medea: A Noh Cycle. Performing in the Lowry Lab theater and co-produced by Theatre Unbound and Green T Productions, Medea: A Noh Cycle runs April 10-25. For more info please visit: http://www.theatreunbound.com/productions/upcoming.html